Baby Boomers U.S. Worst Generation?

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Tastylicks said:
Facebook is a baby boomer cesspool FYI

which is funny cause they didn't create it and they all hate on it. Yet they are the biggest users these days. It would be obsolete and dying if not for all the boomer rants :cool:
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No way are baby boomers the biggest user of Facebook. Please share the link?
 
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#178
Tastylicks said:
Facebook is a baby boomer cesspool FYI

which is funny cause they didn't create it and they all hate on it. Yet they are the biggest users these days. It would be obsolete and dying if not for all the boomer rants :cool:
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Facebook is a giant POS. I cannot wait until it is outdated and suffers the same fate as MYSPACE.
 
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jp1 said:
Most if not all of the "boomers" that I know have more than paid their share, the ones on the dole that I see on a daily basis don't fit into that age group.
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How could you possibly know that? What is your "fair share"? Putting more in than you've taken out? How do you even quantify how much you've taken out?
 
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jp1 said:
No way are baby boomers the biggest user of Facebook. Please share the link?
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was studied in 2019. Probably an even greater discrepancy today as the 2020 election was very popular with the Baby Boomers on Facebook and TikTok rose as an alternative for the youth....

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"How Different Generations Use Social Media"

"As a whole, younger generations such as Generation Zers (ages 13-17), millennials (ages 18-34), and Generation Xers (ages 35-54) use social media more frequently than baby boomers (ages 55+). However, this is not the case for every social media channel.

Facebook’s popularity is declining with younger generations with only 36% of Generation Zers use Facebook at least once a week, compared to 87% of millennials, 90% of Generation Xers, and 96% of baby boomers. "

How Different Generations Use Social Media | March 2021
 
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Tastylicks said:
was studied in 2019. Probably an even greater discrepancy today as the 2020 election was very popular with the Baby Boomers on Facebook and TikTok rose as an alternative for the youth....

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"How Different Generations Use Social Media"

"As a whole, younger generations such as Generation Zers (ages 13-17), millennials (ages 18-34), and Generation Xers (ages 35-54) use social media more frequently than baby boomers (ages 55+). However, this is not the case for every social media channel.

Facebook’s popularity is declining with younger generations with only 36% of Generation Zers use Facebook at least once a week, compared to 87% of millennials, 90% of Generation Xers, and 96% of baby boomers. "

How Different Generations Use Social Media | March 2021
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No way do 96 out of 100 boomers use Facebook once a week. Surely you didn't buy that research effort.
 
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jp1 said:
No way do 96 out of 100 boomers use Facebook once a week. Surely you didn't buy that research effort.
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The research does not say 96 out of 100 baby boomers use Facebook once a week. That was your silly analysis. Surely I dont buy your analytical skills
 
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n_huffhines said:
I hate this generation vs generation discussion. "Kids these days" were raised by past generations, so both parties deserve blame for the bad. And conversely, when generation X takes credit for the internet economy, the greatest generation sent us down that path with their innovation.

We're all tied together. It's pretty silly to try to point fingers or take credit when all generations have played a role in making America what it is today. Impossible to attribute more credit or more blame to any group, IMO.
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Well said.

My dad is a boomer (born in 1948) and I guess I should be classified as a millennial (1983). Just from my personal experience, boomers tend to have an old-fashioned mindset (obviously) which is not always for the better or worse. I appreciate some of the life lessons learned from that generation (dad and uncles in particular) that many of my peers did not learn or simply didn’t resonate with them. For example, the ability to hunt, fish, operate a manual transmission, survival skills, fiscal responsibility etc. However, the outlook that many in the boomer generation posses is outdated in many ways from my personal experience. Just my 2 cents on this debate. All generations are or were far from perfect.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Well said.

My dad is a boomer (born in 1948) and I guess I should be classified as a millennial (1983). Just from my personal experience, boomers tend to have an old-fashioned mindset (obviously) which is not always for the better or worse. I appreciate some of the life lessons learned from that generation (dad and uncles in particular) that many of my peers did not learn or simply didn’t resonate with them. For example, the ability to hunt, fish, operate a manual transmission, survival skills, fiscal responsibility etc. However, the outlook that many in the boomer posses is outdated in many ways from my personal experience. Just my 2 cents on this debate. All generations are or were far from perfect.
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A millennial born in 1983??? That would make you close to 40 years old. I would assume you have a job, a wife, kids, etc. Which is shocking cause the boomers say we are all unemployed, eating avocado toast at the cafe everyday and on our parents' healthcare o_O:rolleyes:

;)
 
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Tastylicks said:
A millennial born in 1983??? That would make you close to 40 years old. I would assume you have a job, a wife, kids, etc. Which is shocking cause the boomers say we are all unemployed, eating avocado toast at the cafe everyday and on our parents' healthcare o_O:rolleyes:

;)
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Either gen x or millennial is my best guess. I googled this earlier and read conflicting classifications, so I went with millennial. Avocado toast is fuggin awesome.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Well said.

My dad is a boomer (born in 1948) and I guess I should be classified as a millennial (1983). Just from my personal experience, boomers tend to have an old-fashioned mindset (obviously) which is not always for the better or worse. I appreciate some of the life lessons learned from that generation (dad and uncles in particular) that many of my peers did not learn or simply didn’t resonate with them. For example, the ability to hunt, fish, operate a manual transmission, survival skills, fiscal responsibility etc. However, the outlook that many in the boomer generation posses is outdated in many ways from my personal experience. Just my 2 cents on this debate. All generations are or were far from perfect.
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I got basically the same stats as you with my Dad. My Dad laughs at my handyman skills (and curses himself for never teaching me) and I laugh at him for using mechanical timers around the house when he has Alexa. We're just different and we see things differently. One is not better than the other. Relatively speaking, his generation was taught to respect the status quo. My generation was taught more to question everything. The differences go on and on and often neither is right or wrong. Sometimes both wrong. Sometimes both right.
 
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Tastylicks said:
was studied in 2019. Probably an even greater discrepancy today as the 2020 election was very popular with the Baby Boomers on Facebook and TikTok rose as an alternative for the youth....

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"How Different Generations Use Social Media"

"As a whole, younger generations such as Generation Zers (ages 13-17), millennials (ages 18-34), and Generation Xers (ages 35-54) use social media more frequently than baby boomers (ages 55+). However, this is not the case for every social media channel.

Facebook’s popularity is declining with younger generations with only 36% of Generation Zers use Facebook at least once a week, compared to 87% of millennials, 90% of Generation Xers, and 96% of baby boomers. "

How Different Generations Use Social Media | March 2021
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You do not know how to read your own post.
Not the graph, your words in the last paragraph.
 
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jp1 said:
No way do 96 out of 100 boomers use Facebook once a week. Surely you didn't buy that research effort.
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Your link says that of the total 600+ of people they surveyed 96% of the boomer generation used the platform once a week.

Now, the study does not mention how many of the 627 people surveyed were in the boomer generation, however you were extrapolating this information to the greater population, yet chastising others for doing the same?

Edit: I stand corrected. The article does mention that 19% of the 627 were baby boomers. So 114 of 119.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Who are the boomers in the PF besides old dallas 40 and Grandvol?
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Old?! 🤬

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Ok fine dammit. There are several of us here so watch you step. Weezer. VolStrom, AM64 come to mind immediately. And I believe SCV is up to a handful of years older than myself from discussion.

And for the record I’m a very tail end boomer. Born in ‘64.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Old?! 🤬

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Ok fine dammit. There are several of us here so watch you step. Weezer. VolStrom, AM64 come to mind immediately. And I believe SCV is up to a handful of years older than myself from discussion.

And for the record I’m a very tail end boomer. Born in ‘64.
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'64? Holy chit grandpa, be careful and don't break a hip.
 
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